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Or he won't be in the bigs.
The problem is, he's already in the zone with his other pitches - they're just not any good.
Franklin has half-a-dozen workable pitches, and as one of them starts to go bad on him he just switches to another.
Beavan might THROW four pitches, but everything that isn't a FB gets crushed.
Franklin is a Swiss Army knife that keeps opposing batters guessing as to what's coming out on any given day.
Beavan is a 4 cylinder engine with one working piston.  Sooner or later that last piston is gonna give out and the engine's gonna die.
It's not his command that's the issue - Beavan's command is fine.
It's his stuff that sucks, and I don't have a cure for that.  Maybe the bullpen, as was suggested elsewhere.  See if he can throw his one pitch, the fastball, even faster and better, and use whichever of his 3 other pitches is working that day as an alternate pitch.
It's worth a shot - but his long-term chances are grim unless he can get more value out of his other pitches.
~G